I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my ideas.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

I love acting and certainly won't give it up, but it's part of a bigger canvas for me now.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Earlier today, President Bush said Kerry will be a tough and hard-charging opponent. That explains why Bush's nickname for Kerry is math.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.

The weird part is actually, there were so many exceptionally talented people there [ on "MADtv"]. But it was a disaster. I don't think I enjoyed any of it, really. I had a different sensibility.